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Friday, April 11, 2014

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammet

Dashiell Hammett is credited with creating the hardboiled genre, along
with Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane. Considering the time in which
it was published, this novel is about as hardboiled as they come. Even
compared to a film maker like Quentin Tarantino, who faces no
limitations on how dark and crass a story he can tell (and is applauded
when he finds a way to offend somebody in the audience), this story is
hardcorps.

About the Two-Fisted Blogger

This blog came about by accident...if you believe in accidents.
I was attempting to take advantage of something Google offered, was filling in fields on page after page of especially tedious registration forms, and budaboom! Next thing I know, I have my own blog.
That's not the whole story, though. Truth is, I had considered blogging before, but decided against it because I already had too many things competing for my limited time.
"It's an omen!" sez I. "I shall become a bat." Oops. No, wait...wrong Omen Reaction Vow. Sorry, Bruce.
"I shall become a blogger," sez I. It was destiny, see?
The Two-Fisted Blog was soon in business, providing an online "man cave" for those who love books, movies and other entertainment with a high testosterone quotient.
I'm still in the blogging business, giving folks around the world the skinny on old stuff you may have missed, and new stuff you may not yet have discovered...but I now do this mostly over at www.virtualpulp.net. See you there.